Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don’t want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don’t want to take over corporations and make them more “socially responsible.” We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, Permaculture, encrypted barter currencies and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.

There are lessons to be learned for Britain. The EU is much more calculating, uncompromising and cruel than we could ever have predicted. This means David Cameron’s so-called ‘renegotiations’ with the EU have no hope of succeeding as Brussels has every intention of not budging an inch. Their single currency is so precious to them they are prepared to grind Greece into the ground to attempt to keep it stable. The EU will never surrender its key underlying principles for Britain’s sake – so expect cosmetic reforms at best - whether or not Cameron comes out waving his white flag of so-called success.